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Indeed, the first achievement of the Oslo summit was a call to get much more serious about closing the $39 billion annual gap in external funding needed to ensure that every child attends pre-primary, primary, and secondary school.
In 2004, for example, Chad’s 39.4% annual growth rate contrasted sharply with Zimbabwe’s -6.8% economic contraction.
In 2004, only six countries – Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique – had annual growth rates higher than 7%.
Eight of the top 10 performers in 2004 are either oil-exporting countries or post-conflict economies, with the latter’s high annual growth rates explained mostly by the proverbial “dead cat bounce” – the low base period over which growth is measured.
At a dinner in 1999, Paul Volcker, the former US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, estimated the size of this financial housecleaning to be over 100% of Japan's annual GDP.
As Maurice Scott shows in his book A New View of Growth , Japan's 9.2% annual growth rate during the peak "miracle" years, 1960-73, can be explained by the investment rate, the growth in the quality-adjusted labor force, and the push that comes from "catching up" with the most developed economies.
Again, such behavior undermines the employment contract as a basic social institution and makes a number of its associated features, such as annual income taxation, suboptimal.
No mention was made that, according to the Center for American Progress, competition between Aetna and Humana just in the Medicare Advantage health-insurance market reduces the average annual premium customers pay each company by $155 and $43, respectively.
Such remittances enabled thousands of Jamaicans, for example, to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, when storm damage was estimated at more than one-quarter of the country's annual GDP and nearly three households in four reported damage.
In Jamaica, remittances from workers abroad make up more than 10% of annual GDP on average--more than double the level of foreign direct investment.
While Russia’s annual growth rate is stuck at an anemic 1.5%, the annual civilian, legal, and other related costs of its military aggression are now at least 3-4% of GDP – or $45-60 billion.
Indeed, annual GDP growth has fallen by five percentage points since 2010.
Only if annual productivity growth rises from its current range of 0.5-1% to 1.5-2% in the coming years can one declare that the US has avoided the fate predicted by Summers and Gordon.
That is our roughly $80 trillion of annual global income today.
According to standard estimates, annual labor productivity growth in the North Atlantic region averaged 1% from 1800 to 1870, 2% between 1870 and 1970, and 1.5% since then – with a possible slowdown in the past decade.
Meanwhile, economic recovery in the advanced economies, especially the United States and Europe, is reinvigorating external demand, leading analysts to project annual Chinese export growth of more than 10% this year – 3-4 percentage points higher than in 2013.
This would bring annual GDP growth in 2014 to a very healthy 7.5-8%.
Personal consumption in the United States expanded at only a 1.5% annual rate in real (inflation-adjusted) terms in the second quarter of 2012 – and that was no aberration.
Moreover, while NAFTA locked Mexico into many needed and desirable economic reforms, it never delivered on the promise of growth: Since 1994, annual economic growth has averaged just 2.5% – low by emerging-market standards – while the figures for productivity, employment, and wages are similarly disappointing.
Given that Americans drive roughly three trillion miles annually, saving just one cent per mile implies $30 billion in annual savings.
Given today’s exceptionally low long-term interest rates, the annual cost would be, well, peanuts.
According to the International Monetary Fund, Iran’s GDP is growing at an annual rate of just over 4%, with encouraging indications that in the post-sanction era, growth is broadening to the non-oil sectors.
After all, aside from political under-representation, Germany’s annual contribution to the EU budget (most recently €7.4 billion) makes the country by far the largest net contributor.
The Lethal Consequences of Misclassifying DolphinsPRINCETON – The annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji began in September.
According to Bloomberg, Li will be the first Chinese premier not to fulfill the official annual growth target since Zhu.
Unfortunately, annual health checks that screen for physical and mental-health changes and epilepsy are not routine in many countries.
No Blank Check for Development BanksNEW YORK – Global financial leaders are convening in Washington, DC, this week for the annual spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.
The first moment took place during the Organization of American States’ annual General Assembly, held this year in Antigua, Guatemala, at the beginning of June.
Remove China, which experienced particularly rapid wage growth, and annual growth in global wages dropped from 1.6% to a mere 0.9%.
At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in January 2016, the industry supported a generalized commitment to new initiatives – which one could interpret as a request for more government funding.
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